The Whale Drum is a modern example of one of the world’s oldest known instrument families: the tongue or slit drum. These progenitors of the “idiophone” family were originally developed in Africa thousands of years ago. They were originally carved from hollow logs or wooden blocks and struck to produce percussive musical tones. It is one of the few instruments considered to possibly predate language itself. Over the ages, slit drums have been substantially refined to allow more accurate intonation and wider key ranges. We selected our whaledrum for its marimba-like warmth, dreamy tone, gentle softly-rounded attack and subtly undulating decay. The lower notes have an especially deep richness to them.
Content
The UI comes packed with lots of great sound-shaping controls like swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. The Advanced Control window adds additional options like an LFO with shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in control. You can also choose from 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, key position and step-sequencer table control. The ARP system features a velocity sequencer and controls for arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration. The new key and scale lock system allows for easy melodic composition and live performance. It's all rounded out by our modular FX rack window, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phase, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more.
- Full 10x10 Round Robin
- Expressive dynamic layering
- Dry Whale Drum Mallets, Sticks, Brushes and Effects
- Wet Hall Whale Drum Mallets and Sticks
- Baby Whale Drum
- Toy Xylophone
- Sound-designed ambiences and atmospheric synth pad
- Stick and Brush Percussion Effects
Product Specs
This product is built for the full version of Kontakt
Features
- 2 master NKI instrument banks in open Kontakt format
- 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
- Multi-sampled acoustic articulations and designed atmospheric sounds
- 3173 stereo samples
- 1.14 GB Installed
- 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format
- Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
- Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.
Tech Specs
MAC
- OS X Mac OSX 10.9 or higher.
- Memory: 3 GB
- Disk: 1 GB
- Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX, STAND-ALONE
WINDOWS
- Windows Windows 7 or higher.
- Memory: 3 GB
- Disk: 1 GB
- Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX, STAND-ALONE